(Warsaw 1922–2015)
B 63, 1965, signed, titled and dated 1965 on the reverse, oil on canvas, 60 x 60 cm, framed

We are grateful to Katarzyna Jankowska-Cies´lik for the assistance with the cataloguing of this work

Provenance:
Galleria Method, Bergamo (acquired directly from the artist)
European Private Collection

In 1966 the artist immigrated to the United States. He became a leading representative of the up-and-coming Op-art movement. In his work he focused on issues of colour and light. Showing light, its spectrum, the chromatic effects of its separation became Fangor‘s primary aim in his paintings. He produced canvasses composed of coloured circles and waves. With pulsating, vibrating contours, his forms generated an impression of movement and various optical illusions.

‚Fangor‘s wheels were a constant, multilateral experiment. In their arrangement he constantly tested in a new way the effects of brightness and muted colours, the degree of saturation and brightness of colour, the ring size, larger and smaller width of the bands and their density or modesty of expression. The artist also used in his paintings all sorts of contrasts and the afterimage phenomena.
After several years travelling around Europe, Fangor settled in the United States. In 1970, he had a solo exhibition, the first Polish artist to have done so, at New York‘s Solomon Guggenheim Museum. There he showed 37 paintings, precursors to the Western explorations of Op-art.‘ Božena Kowalska